Bill Text: NY A01301 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires public schools in any city with a population over one million to offer Halal food options during lunch.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-10 - enacting clause stricken [A01301 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A01301-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1301

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 17, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. JOYNER -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Education

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  education law, in relation to requiring certain
          public schools in any city with a population over one million to offer
          Halal food options during lunch

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 915-a
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 915-a. Halal food options. In  any  city  having  over  one  million
     4  inhabitants,  each  public  school shall offer Halal food options during
     5  lunch.
     6    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
     7  it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition,  amend-
     8  ment  and/or repeal of any rules or regulations necessary for the imple-
     9  mentation of this act on its effective date are authorized  to  be  made
    10  and completed on or before such date.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04987-01-3